Saturday, August 24, 2019
July marks the start of the 2019 third quarter, and in a few weeks, earnings season starts, with a flood of quarterly earnings reports. With income stocks, quarterly earnings often are closely led or followed by dividend announcements. Common stock dividends are note sure things until they are announced. It’s even better when a dividend […]
For me there are few things more patriotic than earning fat dividend checks from U.S. companies. I like dividends more than apple pie. For some fun today, I want to highlight a few attractive, dividend paying stocks with at least a plausible tie to an All-American theme. I hope you have some fun plans for […]
Crude oil has been on a roller coaster over the last two months. The WTI benchmark price peaked at more than $65 per barrel in late April. The peak was followed by a steep decline to just above $50 per barrel. Many pundits used the price drop to predict a global economic slowdown. They were […]
I receive a lot of questions concerning the different investments on closed-end funds (CEFs); particularly the category of high yield investment types. A lot of investors see the yields and monthly dividends and decide to jump into CEFs without understanding what they are buying. You can find several danger signals that will tell when to […]
Next week we start a new month and more importantly for stock investors, a new quarter. Income focused investors can look forward to a new round of dividend announcements and payments. A number of the companies in the energy infrastructure sector make dividend announcements in the early days of a new quarter, weeks before they […]
When it comes to planning the management of your portfolio of high yield stocks, I constantly strive to make Dividend Hunter a more useful service. Many of the same techniques can be applied to your own income portfolio, even if you’re not a Dividend Hunter reader. The stocks on the Dividend Hunter recommendations list come […]
Over the past weekend I was an invited speaker at the Seattle MoneyShow. One of my presentations was a Master Class titled, “Not All Dividend Investments are Created Equal!” In the two-hour discussion I covered all of the different types of exchange traded income investments, including real estate investment trusts (REITs). REITs fall into one […]
There are a handful of basic, popular strategies for investing in the stock market. Growth stock investing gets the headlines. This strategy involves buying stocks that are going up in price, with the assumption that the share prices will continue to rise. Investors like the idea of maybe buying the next Amazon (AMZN) or Apple […]
With my focus on higher yield investments, I often receive questions about various closed-end funds. CEFs are actively managed investment pools with shares that trade on the stock exchanges. A lot of these funds carry very attractive yields. The danger is that this is an asset class where it is hard to separate the good […]
Most of the thousands of dividend paying stocks listed on the U.S. exchanges pay quarterly dividends, or once every three months. Quarterly dividends are nice, but most of us pay our bills monthly, so it would be convenient to have investments that pay attractive yields and pay the income out on a monthly schedule. If […]
